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...will come from are still indefinite. It is possible that two holidays during the school year will be turned into class days for such purposes. The CUE is now considering three alternative plans for the scheme's presentation. "The first scenario requires all papers to be due before the buffer (the two extra days), while another forces only those students in courses with both a final exam and a paper to hand in their papers before the break. The final alternative has no restriction for papers." This proposal will not advance the interests of those students saddled with big reading...
...Metal All will scratch unless you use a high-speed buffer...
...been house masters, some of whom regularly give a little of their own money to house committees or societies. For example, Dunster House Master Sally Falk Moore gives the house committee about $1000 a year, though the house committee co-chairmen like to keep that money as a buffer...
Blue-bereted U.N. peacekeeping forces do serve as a buffer between potential combatants in a few global hot spots. Multinational U.N. forces patrol the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon, as well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
...hand, are ambiguous at best. It has no authority either to levy sanctions or to demand redress. Moreover, it can do little even to investigate grievances. Perhaps the COI's role as a clearinghouse for complaints against the University is a bureaucratic convenience, but it also serves as a buffer for discontent. While the COI purports to discharge the University's responsibility to provide a channel for complaints against Harvard officials and departments, it can do nothing to insure that such complaints receive a fair and full hearing. Its impotence stands in stark contrast to the investigatory and decision-making...